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August 14, 2007
The Neverending Story Part 64 Million: Short Jokes Are Easy
"Hey, did ya hear? Dennis Kucinich is short! Haven't heard that one before, have ya? Oh, and if you didn't like that joke, he's got a tail too! Cuz he looks like something out of Middle Earth! Ha ha ha ha!"
- What I imagine Scott Stantis said to Toby when trying to explain today's strip.
The stupidity continues today, with Carmen once again explaining to Winslow that he's not in Iowa. But the rest of his volunteer campaign is. With the exception of the actual campaign manager, Carmen. That makes sense, right? That Winslow is such an idiot he never left Prickly City, but Carmen is still there with him too?
I'm actually dumber for reading this strip.
Anywho, the Dingbat Duo are still in Prickly City. However Winslow still has supporters, despite only winning the caucus with two votes and having wasted $64 million dollars - on what, we never really found out (except for that HYSTERICAL dancing llama joke, because to Stantis dancing llamas are funny). But the volunteers are just as stupid as Winston/Winslow, leading to the wonderful Dennis Kucinich "jokes." Oh, and don't forget to enjoy Stantis's drawing of a stereotypical liberal woman. The only thing she's missing is a Fish t-shirt and armpit hair.
Technical question: why are Winslow's comments in the first two panels in thought balloons, but Carmen's aren't? I have a feeling it's because Stantis is so terrible with his writing that he's afraid people couldn't tell who was talking, but I get the sense he's not exactly following the norms when it comes to writing a comic strip. Especially since he doesn't do it in the last two panels.
So here's what I'm taking away from today's strip: Winslow is incredibly stupid. Carmen is just as stupid, since she's still in Prickly City with Winslow. Winslow somehow still has supporters even though Stantis never told us what he wasted the money on. Stantis is going ahead with the Iowa portion of the storyline, even though the straw poll was this past weekend and he won't be able to get to it for a few weeks. Jokes about how Dennis Kucinich looks are easy, and Stantis loves easy jokes. Oh, and it reaffirmed my belief once again that Stantis is the worse comic strip artist on the planet.
What about you? Read something between the lines I missed? Did you think the "Kucinich has a tail" joke was actually clever, or Stantis trying too hard? And don't you just love how Stantis sabotages his own final gag by having to write "kidder" as "kid-der?" Kinda ruins the moment when you can't actually read what the woman is saying.
